Author: Joel

I’ve been thinking a lot about triangles lately, mostly in terms of marriage, specifically my own. I learned in graduate school that the smallest stable unit of a relationship is a triad. That was profound then, especially because of my own thinking about relationships: that we are not just made for relationship with one another, but also with God. It would make sense that the relationship between a couple would be appropriately stabilized by the Father. Any relationship, though, is made ...  Keep reading

Sometimes words get in the way of real prayer. 

Life is full of cycles, sometimes called seasons. The problem is we always feel as if we should be bursting forth with growth. There is a time to die.

Did you ever notice that stress doesn’t go away – it just changes form? That’s because the stress wants to change you.

If you let go of people, you can love them more because then they do not exist only to serve your purposes. They can then be what they were created to be, and you can love them for it. 

Getting older is not about putting yourself together more. It is about being taken apart, piece by piece, until you are finally on your knees in death. 

The pain is only yours. You cannot deposit it anywhere and no one can take it from you. You can only hope to have it transformed.

It is easy to get ahead of ourselves and God when we don’t believe that he will eventually speak.